Tatali Nangala was born west of Kintore and moved into Papunya during the 1960s where she later married Western Desert painting founder Charlie Tararu. She began painting during the women's workshop at Haasts Bluff in 1994 and, alongside Inyuwa Nampitjinpa developed the minimalist style that formed the basis of Pintupi women's art.

During ancestral times two women visited this site on their travels to Lampintja and Walukaritjina nearby. The women were gathering the edible seeds known as wangunu or woollybutt from the perennial grass Eragrostis eriopoda. These seeds are ground into flour, water added and the resultant thick paste is cooked in hot sand and ashes to form a type of damper.